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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. CARL RUMPFF, OF APRATH, NEAR ELBERFELD, GERMANY.

MANUFACTURE OF BROWN DYE-STUFF.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,766, dated July 25, 1882. Application filed May 16, 1882. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL RUMPFF, residing at Aprath, near Elberfeld, in the Kingdom of Prussia and Empire of Germany, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Dye-Stuff or Coloring-Matter, of which the following is a specification.

. This invention relates to a brown dye-stuff or coloringmatter which is produced by the action of diazoazoxylolsulphonate of soda upon naphthylaniine in acid solution.

In carrying out my invention I take fifty pounds of amidoazoxylolsulphonate of soda dissolved in five hundred pounds of water cooled down to 3 centigrade. To this solution I add slowly seventy-five pounds of moriatic acid, and thereafter eleven pounds of sodiurn nitrite dissolved in forty pounds of water. After several hours rest the liquid is poured into a solution containing twenty-five pounds of naphthylamine, fifty pounds of muriatic acid, and five hundred pounds of water. The new brown dye-stud separates instantly as a voluminous precipitate, which is filtered and dried.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The product described, consisting of a new brown dye-stuff or coloring-matter which is produced by'the action of diazoazoxylolsulphonate of soda upon naphthylainine in acid solution.

2. The mode of preparing the within-described dyc-stuff, consisting in adding to a solution of ainidoazoxylolsulphonate of soda, first, muriatic acid, then a solution of sodium nitrite, and then naph-thylamine in acid solution, substantially as set forth.

CARL RUMPFF.

Witnesses:

ANTHONY GREF, J r., WM. A. PoLLooK. 

